There are many sources of information on how to select and implement software, but there is little information on how to negotiate and make the purchase of the software. The uninformed can spend thousands of dollars more than they need too. Those that know the tricks of the trade can save themselves enough to pay for several modules or a good chunk of the implementation costs.
Discrete Vs. Process In Erp
One of the saddest things is a manufacturer who chooses an ERP software system that does not a fit with what they do. For example, a chemical producer who selects and implements software designed for a type of company which manufactures solid objects such as furniture. There once was a company that provided consumer packaged goods to the convenience marketplace who selected fish disassembly software. These are obvious mismatches. But the specifics may not be clear.
Erp Selections Making Friends Or Making Enemies
When searching for a new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, there is the right way and the wrong way. If you were to follow all the presumably right things to do, you can still make some awful mistakes. One of the most dreadful things that you can do is to choose the software and then choose the implementation partner.
ERP Software
ERP Software (Enterprise Resource Planning) often leads people to a lot of confusion. Which software is best and which ERP software will be the easiest to implement. The key to selecting ERP software systems is to understand your own requirements first. Document your specific requirements of what the ERP software should do for you. Do not only make a wish list, but include the things your current software does right. Many times people make the mistakes of selecting systems on…
7 Ways To Fail In An Erp Selection
The best way to fail at an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation is to choose the wrong software up front. Choosing software without following some basic guidelines is a sure-fire method for disaster. Probably the worst thing that someone has done (that we know of), was to buy their ERP software at a tradeshow, thinking it would be the cheap and easy way to solve their problems. They ended up spending more than they expected in finding ways to force the software i…
Causes of ERP Failures
The failures of ERP projects are preventable if we can identify the common causes of the failures regardless the companies and industries that implement them.
ERP Academic Base
Academic Base is one of the most important ERP’s of the world for the Academic Area in the Administration Part. Made for Univeritys and all types of real Schools with Students, the same like Language Schools, Driving Schools, Computer Schools and all kind of possible Schools.
5 Minute Guide to ERP
Information technology has transformed the way we live and the way we do business. ERP, or Enterprise Resource Planning, is one of most widely implemented business software systems in a wide variety of industries and organizations. In this short article, well try to concisely explain the basic yet important concepts relevant to ERP.
Principles of Productivity and Operations Management for Small and Mid-size Business
For this article, I selected a sector that has not been covered by authors and could hardly be found in books for Operations Management. I find this topics importance and significance to the global economy, and the Western, in particular, very high. Authors and advocates (e.g., Schroeder, 2004) dealt with the large enterprises, from both the manufacturing and service sectors; the smaller firms, known as Small Business, Minority Owned Business, SME (Small and Medium-size Enterprise), or SMB (Small and Medium-size Business), have been virtually ignored by them.
Use Super Tech for Business Excellence Part 1
Joel Barker, visionary author of Future Edge, paves a road to excellence for the future. Is your company doing this? Is your competition doing this. This article, in the first paragraph, details the 3 required traits.
4 Ways to Use Auto-Responders to Build Sales
These 4 Auto-Responder strategies will increase sales, build customer retention and improve your customer relationships.
Putting Professionalism back in Management Consulting
There has been a change in business change consulting. Professionals who did things their own way were replaced by inexperienced staff who faithfully followed a methodology to produce contract-satisfying deliverables. We need a new consulting model so that consultants can work in partnership with the enterprise to leverage enterprise capabilities and put professionalism back in management consulting.